This is the man who is fully responsible for me being a master furniture maker today, Mr. Norm Abram. I've built and sold plenty of those pic Nic tables and I still use the same sawhorse design today that Norm showed me how to build, over 30 years ago. My first table saw was a 10 " delta hybrid contractors table saw just like Norm's. But I replaced the original jet lock fence and outfitted the table saw with a 52" unfence, and I still have that table saw today over 30 years old and it never gave me no problems at all. Although I now have a laguna table saw, I will never part with my delta take saw. To many New Yankee Workshop memories behind my delta table saw.
Thankyou so much for your years of training. You & I have made many projects together. When I had my open heart surgery I couldn't sleep at night. I would go to sleep listening to your voice & the sound of your power tools. I called it my sawdust therapy. You & all the folks at this old house have kept me sane for decades. God Bless you all. My son grew up watching & working with me . He called you uncle Norm. He's now 41 I'm 67. You & I have gone through a lot of life struggles .I can't begin to thankyou.❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
This show started and encouraged my young woodworking interest. I used to watch it on Sat. and Sunday afternoons, and taped each episode so I could watch it again later. Currently I am a 20 year woodworking teacher at a High School, and I owe a lot to Norm! I also met him at a home show in the 90's and he is exactly the same character as in the show. Truly a Legend!
Totally! I watched Norm as a young man and continue to build with wood to this day, in no small part to the inspiration I got from The New Yankee Workshop.
Sure miss you Norm! I was always working on something in my 3rd garage shop equipped with my hand-built workbench and wall cabinets hung on french cleats, my Delta table and radial arm saws, drill press, and portable power tools all mounted on pegboard walls. But I always made the time and looked forward to watching you on the New Yankee Workshop every Saturday and dreaming of having my own larger shop one day. You're one in a million and I have my signed picture of you up in my shop and only wear my treasured plaid shirts while there as homage to you. Thanks again for the many years of your calm demeanor, inspirational craftsmanship, and for making my Saturdays.
Back a bit more then 20 yrsago I use to watch this everyday with my Dad! There all gone now and I really miss them. Seeing this braught back them times we use to have together. Thx!
I remember watching The New Yankee Workshop every Saturday on PBS. This was such a fun, and interesting show to watch. Norm Abram is truly a master carpenter. He can take a few pieces of wood, and turn them into an amazing piece of furniture
I'm so glad I could upload something that brought back memories for you! This recording comes from a stack of old VHS tapes I bought off Ebay. I had actually never seen this show before, but I've since fallen in love with it. Norm is the best.
I sit in my living room filled with the furniture I built out of oak after Norm taught me how to build them. My desk, that I write from, is Norm's inspiration as are the bookcase and display case he helped me design. Thanks Norm. from Roger age 72 now.
Norm , single handedly, increased the sales of power tools more than any other person on the planet. With all the sub par programming on TV and the internet, the world needs another Norm DESPERATELY!
Loved those Saturday mornings. My garage is stuffed right now but this summer my plan is to set up my wood shop. I may not be able to have all Norm’s tools but a couple of those saw horses would be a good addition.
I like this show and I used to watch it with my parents until it got canceled I was so disappointed that it was canceled now I can watch it on my cellphone thank you. New Yankees work shop
Thank you for sharing, I have hours of this stuff on some VHS, if they will still play. I even have like 8 of the measured drawings along with the VHS. Starting to show my age here. but again thanks for sharing! This and The Woodwright Shop, and of course This Old House was my favorite.
I once met a man , he was a retired bank executive, and had nearly ever power tool that Norm Abrams had. He told a story about a (high end) wood workers magazine. The magazine put together a 100 question test and challenged their subscribers to take the test. The man I met said that the questions were all extremely difficult and challenging. Some hundreds of folks took and submitted the test. Only ONE person got all 100 questions right. It was Norm Abrams. So this man is the master carpenter of master carpenters. ;-)
Norm got the spot on PBS after someone that worked there hired him to build a shed. That excellent shed was built fast with almost no wasted materials left over. The impressed PBS employee immediately knew he had witnessed something special.
@@dakistle It was an employee yes - but it was Russ Morash - the man who started WGBS Boston and who developed The French Chef with Julia Child, This Old House, The Victory Garden, and of course, The New Yankee Workshop!
If its an old Sears, you might be able to take advantage of a recall. They replaced the Blade guard that moved the port from the front to the rear. lol Never understood why they did that tbh. and they also sent me a new top and fence along with the blade guard. People feel they are to dangerous. To be Honest I respect that saw as i have with every power tool. " Watch Them Fingers". lol seen alot of old timers in my younger days missing digits. I wish they would bring that level of versatile use to the Sliding Miter saws.
I remember watching the rolling shop cabinet episode and begging my mom to order the plans so i could build it...and I did.. That was 25 years ago.. Maybe I'll build another one if I could ever find the plans?!!!
I love seeing all the older style tools in use. These days I use a sliding compound miter saw instead of the radial arm saw. I also use all cordless drills these days.
Norm was ,is the father of todays woodworking craft, Nd TV,s building show we watch NOW 2023 ,a master of his craft , I'm actually watching RIGHT NOW woodland workshop inuk and the Yankee workshop came straight to mind x norm Abrams.
A measured drawring. Lol My dad used to watch this all the time, i’d watch sometimes and always found the New England accent amusing and his cheerful attitude and lack of ego despite knowing more than just about anyone about it unusual, even then. I have a radial arm saw that’s probably older than the one on that show, with fewer safety features, but still runs like new. But I have it because my dad loved his so much, it’s what I learned on, so I got one of my own, all because of Norm.
Norm has taught me all I need to know about woodworking. Also Tom Silva to a point. I do love when you say vintage because this is recorded w a vcr!! I love it. That brings back my childhood. National lampoons vacation was the first I ever saw on vcr. What’s yours?
You don't need to dado the picnic table legs if you use GRK Structural Screws. They have tremendous strength and are cheaper than lag bolts. Makes it much easier to assemble this table, You don't need to dado or buy a forstner bit for the lag bolts.
I've always enjoyed watching Norm on TOH and the new Yankee workshop, true craftsmanship and pride in your products seems to be a dieing art, it's a shame his ex screwed future generations of learning how to do things right,
@@petercollin5670 from what I understand, she kept him from continuing the new Yankee workshop series on public television, he was also absent on this old house for years, something to do with the divorce arrangement
Norm was the carpenter on this old house for a long time. New Yankee Workshop was Norm's show where he got to make some really nice furniture, or a sawhorse.
Not neccessarily - Norm just has a following and the RU-vid algorithm is doing me some favors with this one. The entire series is available online, but behind the paywall of some kind of Popular Woodworking subscription. As for the commercials and everything, 90s PBS recordings tend to be pretty easy to find in the VHS collector community. What can make those rare is the specific PBS affiliate they are recorded from. This one happens to be KCET and KOCE, which both broadcast from California.
